Improvement in plow-colters



w. H. HOEFELMAN.

' Patented Aug 20,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

NVILLIAM H. HOEFELMAN, OF COLUMBUS7 NEBRASKA.

mneFRoviaiwaivr IN PLOW-comms.

Specification formingv part oi' Letters Patent N0. H30,63, dated August 20, 187:2.

Specification describing a new and Improved Gornstalk and Weed Burier, invented by WIL- LIAM H. HOEFELMAN, of Columbus, in the county of Platte and State of Nebraska.

Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view of my improved cornstalk and Weed burer. i

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to anew plow attachmentfor causing weeds, stalks, and stubble, to be covered by the plow While the same is turning the soil, with the object of' removing such stalks, 85o., from the Way of harvesting machines, which they frequently clog, and of utilizing the same to enrich the soil. The invention consists in the use of a colter applied to the plow-beam, and combined with a laterally-projecting curved' arm for turning the Weeds, Sto., which have been detached by the colter.

A in the drawing represents the colter pro- A[vided with a slotted shank, af, and attached vertically adjustable to the plow-beam B, directly infront of the plow-point. C is a curved arm fastened by means of bolts or pins b b to the side oi' the colter, and projecting toward the groundy in front of the mold-board. It serves to carry all Weeds, &c., that have been cut off their connections by the colter into position to be covered by the soil as the same is turned over by the mold-board. The shank of the curved arm C is slotted, as shown, to make it adjustable o n the colter back and for Ward.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent- The vertical]y-adjustable colter A, in combination with the curved arm C, substantially as herein shown and described.

WlLLIAM H. HOEFELMAN.

Witnesses:

" JOSEPH SoHLossER,

V. KUMMER. 

